The Spanish government is one step closer to passing a law that will force Google News and other content aggregators to pay for links. Under the new Copyright Act passed by Congress, websites linking to articles by the industry’s biggest news organiz...

Are you a U.S. citizen living in the greater Washington, D.C. area looking for a new gig? Do you have impeccable oral and written communication skills? Or strong analytical and critical thinking skills? Sure you do; you have all those things in spade...

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The same team that created a Wiki-like database for persons of interest is now creating a site to track terrorists. And it looks like Facebook. Modus Operandi, a Florida-based intelligence company, has announced plans to create a database that will a...

Facebook has announced a plan to revamp the look of Timelines on its Pages, moving to a one-column design more similar to the Timelines on individual profiles. (Quick reminder: Pages are generally public and can be for a person, business, movie, etc....

When Coachella’s organizers decided to have a hologram of late rapper Tupac appear onstage during the 2012 dates of the music festival, they used a high-powered projector to create the uncanny "performance." Now, in 2014, a startup called Ostendo is ...

In what has got to be one of the strangest franchise crossovers we’ve ever seen, a forthcoming DLC (downloadable content) pack for Mario Kart 8 will allow gamers to hop behind the wheel of a Mercedes-Benz. Nintendo’s Mario Kart 8 is released in Japan...

Most voting booths in the U.S. will give you a little sticker upon completing your task. During the 2010 mid-term elections, Facebook came up with the digital equivalent: Its 'I'm a Voter' button let people tell their friends they voted. During the U...

Yelp is going after the cryptocurrency-users-who-lunch demographic. The online reviewing service works as a guide for users looking for local restaurants, bars, services, and attractions. Users submit reviews and information and read what other peopl...

After a restful weekend, who among us couldn't use a tiny feline Tuesday pick-me-up? Sadly, there's still no Seamless for kittens to cure your cubicle blues, otherwise we'd have at least a dozen furballs in our laps already. Some people are lucky tho...

As the dust settles around Turkey's largely failed attempted to ban Twitter, the government has identified the two accounts that pissed it off the most. And if you don't live in Turkey, or you're somewhat Internet-savvy, you can now see them. Twitter...

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Constant texting can be dangerous -- whether it's behind the wheel or crossing the street. But it turns out that perennial claims that texting is having an adverse, and potentially lethal, impact on people's posture may be overstated. For years, stor...

On March 13, 2014, Ryan Green, one of the developers behind the heartbreaking adventure game That Dragon, Cancer, announced on Twitter that his 5-year old son Joel, who had been battling cancer since age 1, had passed away. My son Joel took his last ...

It's been called "Censorship Fiasco 2: Electric Boogaloo." News over the past 72 hours has been dominated by the implosion of Mt. Gox, once the world's largest Bitcoin exchange, and a report from Glenn Greenwald on how British intelligence agents hav...

The impulse to share secrets with strangers predates smartphones. We've been scrawling our hidden hearts onto bathroom walls for so long there's even a fancy word for it: latrinalia. Today's public secret-telling takes place on social networks instea...

In electoral politics, the candidate is meant to project a vision of governance, extolling her party's noble ideas and principles, all while letting her own beneficence shine through. When that doesn't work, you go ad hominem and straw man -- you tea...

Yesterday, transgender woman and writer Janet Mock was excited for her interview with Piers Morgan Live on CNN. But when the segment, entitled "From Boy To Girl," aired last night, Mock apparently realized that it wasn't quite as positive as she'd be...

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That the Internet is written in ink, not pencil, hasn't dissuaded many from revealing embarrassing facts about themselves online, but few can boast the transparency of comedian Dawn Luebbe. She recently began uploading her childhood diary to Tumblr, ...

A teenage girl in Canada looking to get revenge on her boyfriend's ex has been found guilty of child pornography possession and distribution, reports the CBC. It's the first case on Canada of a teen being convicted of a child-porn offense due to "sex...

To the many who view themselves as netizens, citizens of the Internet, the loss of Aaron Swartz was a devastating moment in history. One year after his death, the memory of the 26-year-old activist is galvanizing the efforts of organizers who share h...

A Brazilian man is leading a legal charge against the creators of man-ranking app Lulu. Felippo de Almeida Scolari, a 28-year-old law student in Sao Paulo, claims the app violates Brazilian law. He filed a suit against the app in early December. Scol...

While you schmoes were dragging your butts in the cold to your desk jobs while trying to prevent snot from freezing on your face, a San Francisco-based domme named Maitresse Madeline (NSFW) was most likely sleeping pretty in her cozy bed. Why? Becaus...

After nine months in a Ohio juvenile detention facility, Ma'lik Richmond, one of two Steubenville teens found "delinquent" of raping a 16-year-old girl in August 2012, has been released. He was initially sentenced to one year. In a statement released...

At first glance, there's nothing terribly unique about Antonia Eriksson's Instagram account. She's an 18-year-old fitness blogger who lives in Sweden. She's very pretty, and in enviable shape. Her profile is filled with healthy food porn, post- and p...

We all know the shortcomings of Wikipedia. The encyclopedia that anyone can edit is a frequent victim to hoaxes and trolls who litter it with misinformation that can sometime last as long as a half-decade. Most of us use it anyway. But what if you re...

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